Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 1572: Chapter 831: Righteous Evilness (Part 3)

“As for the subdivisions of the Evil Qi, there are many types, such as Heavenly Evilness, Fateful Evilness, Corpse Evilness, Evil Evil, Ferocious Evilness, Demon evilness, Annual Evilness, Deadly Evilness… and so on and so forth.”

“These types of Evil Qi, I only know them by name. The knowledge contained within is extremely profound, and unless one is a cultivator who has thoroughly studied this Dao, it’s impossible to distinguish them or understand…”

“However, fundamentally, all these types of Evil Qi are related to ‘death and injury’. These deaths and injuries can be caused by natural disasters or human calamities.”

“Natural disasters are hard to predict, but human calamities are easy to create.”

“Therefore, if a cultivator wishes to refine Evil Qi, they must inevitably personally create killings. Simply put… they must kill people!”

Yu Canghai’s expression was grave.

Mo Hua slightly furrowed his brow.

“The more people you kill, the greater the sin of killing, and the stronger the Evil Qi you refine naturally becomes. My young friend, let me ask you this,” Yu Canghai said, “Is killing people right?”

Mo Hua wanted to say it’s wrong, but after pondering a bit, he shook his head, “Not necessarily.”

“Indeed!” Yu Canghai said, “On the surface, killing people is wrong, and killing people to refine Evil Qi is even more an act of heretical demons, but…”

“What if someone deserves to die, someone is supposed to be killed?”

“Should such a person be killed or not?”

Mo Hua’s gaze was profound, but he said nothing.

Yu Canghai sighed, “Having a good heart is a good thing, but good and evil are inherently one, too much is as bad as too little.”

“Too much kindness becomes ignorance, and ignorance gives birth to evil.”

“If someone says that life is precious and that making a grave mistake should not result in death as long as one repents, or that one can lay down the butcher’s knife, instantly becoming a Buddha and the past sins should be forgiven… then such a person is truly sinning beyond redemption!”

“Those who should die must die. Those who should be killed must also be killed.”

“By killing evil people, one can also refine Evil Qi. Such Evil Qi, in our Water Prison Sect’s tradition, is called ‘Righteous Evil’!”

Mo Hua’s eyes trembled, “Righteous Evil…”

“That’s right!” Yu Canghai nodded solemnly, “Our Water Prison Sect has always joined the Taoist Court to punish criminals with severe penalties, suppress evil villains with the Taoist Prison, slay all sinister elements, monsters, and fallen demons, using slaughter to foster intimidating Evil Qi, imbuing oneself with righteousness, making all vile elements tremble in fear, this is called ‘Righteous Evil’!”

Yu Canghai spoke with righteousness and fervor.

Mo Hua was shaken within, but soon became puzzled, “This ‘Righteous Evil’, it seems easy to cause problems, right…”

Yu Canghai was taken aback, then sighed helplessly.

This young brother, indeed, has a meticulous mind, not a single issue could escape him.

Yu Canghai sighed:

“Young brother is right, Righteous Evil is very hard to nurture…”

“A person nurturing Righteous Evil must have extremely strong perseverance, an incredibly steadfast Taoist Heart, and cannot make even the slightest mistake.”

“Once nurturing Righteous Evil, creating killing sin, the vengeful spirits entangled are mostly extremely evil people. These vicious thoughts constantly invade your mind, and once there is a crack in your mental state, making it unable to resist these vicious thoughts, you will suffer a backlash, and your mental state falls, causing the Evil Qi to mutate and completely transform from Righteous Evil into an even more extreme Evil Evil…”

Upon hearing this, Mo Hua felt a chill in his heart.

But he knew that it might not stop just there.

Killing evil people, refining Righteous Evil.

If, on any day, even mistakenly killing a good person, wouldn’t this Righteous Evil fall short of being called “Righteous”, completely losing its value?

Thinking from another perspective, if I were a great evil person, coming up with a way to frame or trap a cultivator nurturing “Righteous Evil” and have him accidentally kill an innocent good person would be all too simple…

This flaw is truly significant.

Moreover, this is only about a mistake killing.

As a cultivator of the Taoist Court, if someone has an improper heart and a paranoid character, they might even fabricate “false accusations and wrong cases” to create “criminals”, and then rightfully kill these “criminals”, contentedly nurturing Righteous Evil, becoming a hypocritical “cruel officer”.

Carefully thinking about it, it’s quite terrifying.

These words, Elder Yu, considering the Sect’s reputation, definitely wouldn’t say out loud.

But Mo Hua guessed that the reason this pupil skill was classified as a Forbidden Technique, only learnable by the Sect Leader, is somewhat related to these factors.

Nonetheless, Mo Hua wasn’t too bothered by it.

The Water Prison Sect was destroyed a thousand years ago, old grievances are not something for him to settle.

He was only curious about one thing.

After a moment of thought, Mo Hua asked Yu Canghai:

“Elder Yu, how exactly is the pupil skill of the Water Prison Sect used? After nurturing Righteous Evil, how can one use the eyes to intimidate others? Is there something else behind this?”

“This…” Yu Canghai smiled wryly, “My young friend, you are putting me in a difficult position. I am just an ordinary elder, how could I possibly know the secrets of a forbidden technique that only the Sect Leader can learn?”

Mo Hua just looked at him silently.

Being gazed upon by Mo Hua’s clear but insightful eyes made Yu Canghai’s scalp tingle slightly, and finally, he sighed:

“I only know a little bit…”

“A little bit is fine.”

Yu Canghai sighed, helplessly saying, “It is the picture on the Jade Box.”

“A picture?”

Yu Canghai nodded, “The picture contains a visualization method, allowing one to merge Righteous Evil into the Divine Soul through visualizing the picture, then releasing a formidable intimidating Evil Qi through the Eye Acupoint, that is, through the eyes, to deter others’ minds.”

“It’s a unique kind of Divine Soul attack method.”

“It might look unremarkable, but in a life-or-death fight when timing is crucial, having the eyes contain Evilness to intimidate the opponent, even for a few seconds, is enough to determine life and death. What’s even more terrifying is that this pupil skill is unrelated to Spiritual Power and can be used simultaneously with spells, making it highly unpredictable and easy to suffer a great loss if one is not careful.”

Unconsciously, Mo Hua nodded.

He had crossed paths with Water Yama and knew this spell point was not powerful but extremely troublesome.

Unexpectedly, even a Golden Core could be trapped.

If it weren’t for his strong Divine Sense, unaffected by Water Yama’s pupil skill, he might have fallen into his hands back at the ferry.

What’s more terrifying is if others don’t know you can use pupil skills, and you hit them with a surprise move, that’s truly deadly.

However…

Mo Hua was still puzzled.

“The picture on the Jade Box depicts a prison, with eight cells, each holding a criminal receiving different punishments, varying criminals… where is the visualization method in this?”

Upon hearing this, Yu Canghai was also puzzled.

He was genuinely puzzled.

Although he was a Water Prison Sect elder, it was the first time he knew what the sacred Water Prison Forbidden Box of the Water Prison Sect depicted.

“Eight cells, eight kinds of punishment, eight criminals…”

Yu Canghai frowned in contemplation for a moment, suddenly startled, and looked at Mo Hua: “Wait, isn’t this the item in Water Yama’s hands? My young friend, how do you know it so well?”

Even knowing specifically how many cells, how many punishments, and how many criminals there are.

Mo Hua was startled for a moment.

Fortunately, although his complexion was pale, his face was thick-skinned.

Mo Hua maintained a calm demeanor and said:

“I have a good memory, and I can remember everything at a glance. When Water Yama was fleeing with the box, I happened to see it all clearly!”